Tuesday, August 29, 2006

.A number of you guys have commented upon this excellent diorama, posted on missing-lynx I am also sure I have seen it in one of the Japanese modelling magazines..I think I would have seen it in Armour Modeling or similar or maybe as long ago to be in1／１４４ Ｍｉｌｉｔａｉｒｅ Ｍｏｄｅｌｅ http://www.tukasa.co.jp/1_144.html

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

TakaraTomy "Wings of the Luftwaffe" series 4I dont know what is in this series yet, there where some photos at an earlier show showing some Me262 2-4 seater varients, plus there are still even earlier prototypes from show photos that have not shown.

The official FTOYS Heliborne 3 page has been published, as yet not many individual item photos, but expect these to follow soon?.A larger version of the series item lineup sheet is available at the main site:http://www.f-toys.net/p_heli3.html.

There is increasing discussion sourrounding the potential release 'later this year' ..Details are a still a bit vauge, however.... it is thought that initially WTM 07 and then WTM 08 will be released. It is not know if these will be released as "World Tank Museum" or under another brand..This has been done before with limted distribution in Europe before where ABYSSE Corporation has sold WTM "VS" Series and some WTM 03 under the "Panzer Squadron" branding - this included a set or series of wargaming rules too!.It is thought that the branding might be "Battle of Kursk" etc for WTM 07?.While it is not clear how these items will be packaged - in that Dragon produced the Can.do range in "blind" packs for the Japanese market and for america the are carded blister packs with bonus diorama cases. It is not known how the Takara packages will be sold..The final piece of interest is that these are expected to be sold in both "Single" item packs and "mulitpacks" of upto 5 items for "platoons" - at present it is not clear what the selling price will be for the single or mulitpacks (or what price advantage the mulitpacks will have).It is thought that the company distributing these products in the USA will be "ACD Distribution" whose site can be found : www.acdd.com - There is no information available on the site, but I figure if you are a genuine retailer in the USA you may wish to express your interest?

A new F-104 Starfighter, a cool looking V-22 Osprey, AS332 heli, F-2Trainer (?) and another UH-60J.It looks like there will be some more special edition F-TOYS/PLATZ items coming up in August, I think these are linked to a special event to be held this month (Summer Wonderfest!?). .日時：2006年8月20日 10：00～17：00会場：東京ビックサイト 東3・4・5・6ホール主催：ワンダーフェスティバル実行委員会／株式会社 海洋堂.Day and time: 2006 August 20th 10:00 ~17: 00 - Tokyo - Location ??/

Release Date: ????.I think this might be 1/150 rather than 1/144 to fit in with the Japanese railway model standards, but should also work well with the British 1/152 and even maybe 1/160 US/EURO standars - the tracks are the same gauge afterall.....I think this is a nice fun piecem could be used as a civilian item or if you paint it up and raid the spares box you could make some commando special forces?

September (?) 2006.The Panzer 1 + Flak has been teasing me for months, it appears to be scheduled for "after August 2006"..... what ever that means!.The Horsh Flak 30 is scheduled for "September"!!.Both very intersting models and I think they will be very popular with collectors and war gamers alike!

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Well some more images for the "Japan Sinks" Series!Maybe we can see more of this technique in future?.We know in the USA Dragon Can.do items come with a selection of basic diorama bases, maybe Takara could extend this to some of thir WTM releases?

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There is to be a thrid "japan sinks" series called "Japan Sinks DX", I am not sure what is in that series at present maybe an other item for this set?